Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Fightilldust on July 20, 2011, 03:16:18 pm

Title: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Fightilldust on July 20, 2011, 03:16:18 pm
Hey ive made a map and ive exported it .I Can see it in the place with all the portals.I Just dont know how to get people into it and how to ger music and weather.
Its really confusing and i would like to visit some new places.
Please help me  ??? :( :'(
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ruby1234 on July 20, 2011, 03:26:28 pm
Please don't make your title in all caps, that isn't necessary in order for us to see your thread. ;)

You get people into your maps by adding a portal and exporting it, then going to your exports folder and getting the exported files. Then upload them to www.mediafire.com (http://www.mediafire.com) (or somewhere that uploads files) and have your friends download them and put them in their exports folder.

You make weather in Sky Maker, you can figure it out just by playing around with it.

For music, put a song (it must be a .mp3 or a .wav file) in your sounds folder, and type it in, in the "Music" section in map maker.

Hope that helps a bit. ;)
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Fightilldust on July 20, 2011, 03:42:48 pm
I Will try allthought whats the website for again? Sorry for the caps and bieng dumb :s
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Fightilldust on July 20, 2011, 03:44:13 pm
Nope sorry i still dont get it :S
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Fightilldust on July 20, 2011, 05:02:58 pm
Hey ive made a green blue and red image to go onto my map what do i do now? Also i dont have a export folder. :-\
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ephemeral on July 20, 2011, 05:10:19 pm
Hey ive made a green blue and red image to go onto my map what do i do now? Also i dont have a export folder. :-\

You do have an export folder. You /should/ be able to access it by going in through My Computer. I have Feral Heart saved under Local Disk (C:). It should be the same for you, unless you chose the save it elsewhere, since I'm pretty sure it's the default. From there, you go into the FeralHeart folder and your exports should be the first file in that list.

I'm not sure if this is what you were talking about, though, since I've never tried to make a map. It's just my guess that this is what you'd want. :]
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: rawr_loud on July 20, 2011, 06:32:17 pm
Are you referring to the Terrain Mask? If so make sure the file is a .png file, made with Gimp or Photoshop, 513x513 pixels, one layer, and in RGB Color. Save it into C: >> FeralHeart >> Media >> Terrains. Then it should be named like this: something_mask.png.  Go into FH and in the tab where you entered your map layout name there should be a tab below, put in something_mask or whatever the mask is called and the .png is already there. Choose your three terrain colors with the boxes. Here is a tutorial, one for Gimp Masking and one for Photoshop Masking:

GIMP Part 1:  
Feral Heart Map-making Tutorials~Terrain Mask in GIMP-Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HLjeownUs#ws)

GIMP Part 2:
Feral Heart Map-making Tutorials~Terrain Mask in GIMP-Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm59FCy4NJ4#ws)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Photoshop Part 1:
Feral Heart Map-making Tutorials~Terrain Mask in Photoshop Part1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n7n_JNmso#ws)

Photoshop Part 2:
Feral Heart Map-making Tutorials~Terrain Mask in Photoshop Part2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QLfij-F88#ws)

These helped me a ton. I wouldn't have learned any other way.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Fightilldust on August 03, 2011, 11:09:07 am
Making maps is so hard D:
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ruby1234 on August 03, 2011, 12:10:11 pm
It's a little complex, but it's way easier than other games. When you get the hang of it, it's really quite easy actually.

If you don't have an exports folder in the location:
C:\FeralHeart\exports
Then try making one, if that doesn't work, you may need to install again.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 05, 2011, 09:56:51 pm
so how do u put the portals into the folder?
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 07, 2011, 04:22:47 am
Please don't make your title in all caps, that isn't necessary in order for us to see your thread. ;)

You get people into your maps by adding a portal and exporting it, then going to your exports folder and getting the exported files. Then upload them to www.mediafire.com (http://www.mediafire.com) (or somewhere that uploads files) and have your friends download them and put them in their exports folder.

You make weather in Sky Maker, you can figure it out just by playing around with it.

For music, put a song (it must be a .mp3 or a .wav file) in your sounds folder, and type it in, in the "Music" section in map maker.

Hope that helps a bit. ;)

How do u export a portal? Wen u export it wat is it called?
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ruby1234 on August 07, 2011, 04:24:36 am
Have "Has Portal" checked and type in the coords.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 07, 2011, 04:46:31 am
well one map has a portal to cape and is linked by portals to 2 other maps, and yes they all have coordinates. But i dont know wat the portals file or folder thing looks like or wat it says and is it in teh exports folder?
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Redlinelies on August 07, 2011, 05:02:28 am
The portals doesn't get their own files.

When you create a portal or gate for a map, it will be a part of the .fhm.

.fhm is the map, .fho is the objects etc.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 07, 2011, 05:21:11 am
Oh ok so wen i export the map and put the fhm file up for download i can see other ppl on the map?
Also so ppl can see the objects i have to put the fho file up with the fhm file too right?
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Redlinelies on August 07, 2011, 03:42:14 pm
.fhm is the map
.fho is the objects you use.

All exported files that's linked to your map needs to be sent, otherwise the map wont work properly for the rest.

But yeah, once you put these files up for a download in a zip and people actually have downloaded it. They should be able to enter the map. But just because you put it up for a download wont mean members start plopping up inside of it.

They need to download and install the map as well.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 07, 2011, 09:29:58 pm
Does everything have to be in one zip file or do the maps have to be separate from the rest?
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Redlinelies on August 08, 2011, 06:01:43 am
Neither.

People just put the maps in .zip and .rar files just because they should be in one file.

It's very unconvenient to send file after file after file when you could just put it all in one zip and send it.

It doesn't have to be in a zip, but it's usually the best way to go, since it's both easier to put up for download,  and other TO download.
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: Ingredient on August 08, 2011, 08:10:41 am
ok thank u
Title: Re: DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MAPS AND HOW TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT!
Post by: snakebite on August 08, 2011, 08:26:16 am
Nvm didn't see the second page :p